Louis Bouyer
Louis Bouyer (born February 17, 1913 in Paris , † October 22, 2004 in Paris) was a French Catholic theologian .
Life
Louis Bouyer came from a Protestant family. After a philological degree at the Sorbonne , he studied theology , first at the Protestant faculty in Paris, then at the University of Strasbourg . In 1936 he was ordained as a Lutheran pastor and then held a vicarage in the Lutheran Trinité parish in Paris until the Second World War . The study of Christology and ecclesiology of St. Athanasius led him to the Catholic Church from 1939.
After he was accepted into the Catholic Church in the Abbey of Saint-Wandrille ( Seine-Maritime Department ), he joined the Congregation of Oratorian Priests for the rest of his life . He was ordained a priest in 1944. He was a professor at the Institut catholique de Paris until 1963 and then taught in England , Spain and the United States . In 1969 he wrote the book La décomposition du catholicisme (Eng. The Decline of Catholicism ), which highlighted the liturgical and dogmatic difficulties the Church was experiencing at the time.
He was twice appointed by the Pope to the International Theological Commission and during the Second Vatican Council he was an advisor for liturgy , in the Liturgy Congregation and in the Secretariat for Christian Unity . In 1999 he received the Cardinal Grente Prize of the Académie française for his complete works. He died in Paris on October 22, 2004 after suffering from Alzheimer's for several years . He is buried in the monastery cemetery of Saint-Wandrille Abbey.
Basics of Louis Bouyer's Thought
After being under the influence of Oscar Cullmann and the formal history school of exegesis at a young age , Bouyer was open to the scientific knowledge of the interpretation of scriptures and rejected pictorial or symbolic interpretations that lack a clear justification in the text and thus, in his opinion, arbitrariness Open the gates, decided to leave. As a supporter of the Bible movement , however, he attached great importance to the importance of tradition (from the Jewish to the Christian ) for an appropriate understanding of the Holy Scriptures .
In his ecclesiology he was strongly influenced by the ecclesiological drafts of Johann Adam Möhler and John Henry Newman , as well as by the thoughts of Russian Orthodox theologians such as Georgi Wassiljewitsch Florowski .
During and after Vatican II, Louis Bouyer always advocated a “third way” beyond the camp struggles between progressivists and traditionalists, which was due to the rediscovery of a living tradition that is completely Catholic but also ecumenical. Louis Bouyer's theology is primarily shaped by historical and spiritual perception.
For the Catholic Church today he is one of the richest, most fruitful and most recognized theologians, comparable to Henri de Lubac , Jean Daniélou and Hans Urs von Balthasar . Studying Louis Bouyer's thinking can go a long way towards conveying the message of the last Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI. to understand more thoroughly.
Publications (French)
- Central themes
- Le mystère pascal, L'eucharistie
- Le trône de la Sagesse ,
- Le fils éternel (Eng. The word is the son),
- Le père invisible ,
- Le consolateur ,
- Cosmos: Le monde et la gloire de Dieu ,
- Gnosis: La connaissance de Dieu dans l'écriture ,
- Sophia ou le Monde en Dieu .
- Ecclesiology
- L'Église de Dieu (German: The Church - St. Benno - Verlag, Leipzig 1984, 494 pages),
- L'incarnation et l'Église corps du Christ .
- liturgy
- Le rite et l'homme ,
- La vie de la liturgie ,
- Architecture et liturgie (German architecture and liturgy).
- You protestantisme à l'Église ,
- Newman sa vie sa spiritualité .
- Martial arts
- Religieux et clercs contre Dieu .
- Mysticism and spirituality
- Vie de saint Antoine par saint Athanase ,
- La meditation contemplative ,
- Le sens de la vie monastique ,
- Le sens de la vie sacerdotale ,
- Figures mystiques féminines ,
- La connaissance spiritual chez Marie de l'incarnation ,
- Introduction à la vie spirituelle (German: Introduction to Christian Spirituality. - Matthias-Grünewald-Verl., Mainz 1965. - 295 pages)
- La spiritualité de Cîteaux ,
- Le quatrième Évangile (Eng. The fourth Gospel).
- Others
- Autour d'Érasme ,
- La dignité et la vocation de la femme ,
- Mystère et ministères de la femme (English: woman and church),
- Les écrits de pères apostoliques ,
- Le sens de la vie sacerdotale ,
- Humain ou chrétien ,
- La spiritualité du Nouveau Testament ,
- Le culte de la mère de Dieu dans l'Église catholique ,
- Saint Philippe Neri ,
- Initiation chrétienne ,
- L'initiation chrétienne .
Web links
- Literature by and about Louis Bouyer in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Albert Raffelt: Bouyer. In LThK³ Vol. 2, 620
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bouyer, Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French Catholic theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 17, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 22, 2004 |
| Place of death | Paris |